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Title: The Hummingbird Project (2018)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jesse Eisenberg | ... | Vincent Zaleski | |
| Alexander Skarsgård | ... | Anton Zaleski | |
| Salma Hayek | ... | Eva Torres | |
| Michael Mando | ... | Mark Vega | |
| Johan Heldenbergh | ... | Amish Elder | |
| Ayisha Issa | ... | Ophelia Troller | |
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Mark Slacke | ... | Tasso Casilieris |
| Sarah Goldberg | ... | Mascha | |
| Frank Schorpion | ... | Bryan Taylor | |
| Kwasi Songui | ... | Ray | |
| Conrad Pla | ... | Agent Santana | |
| Julian Bailey | ... | Elliot | |
| Jessica Greco | ... | Dr. Bloom | |
| Robert Reynolds | ... | KAX House Owner | |
| Anna Maguire | ... | Jenny | |
The Hummingbird Project stars Alexander Skarsgård, Jesse Eisenberg, Salma Hayek, Michael Mando, and director Kim Nguyen share highlights from filming their modern epic.
In this modern epic, Kim Nguyen exposes the ruthless edge of our increasingly digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent (Eisenberg) and Anton (Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading, where winning is measured in milliseconds. Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions. But nothing is straightforward for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the hustler, and together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure. Constantly breathing down their necks is their old boss Eva Torres (Hayek) a powerful, intoxicating and manipulative trader who will stop at nothing to come between them and beat them at their own game. No matter what the cost, Vincent and Anton are determined to cut through America, only to find redemption at the end of their line, not through money, but through family and reconnecting to the land.
When a financial IT hustler in the midst of his greatest gamble is presented with a death sentence, he decides to dig a deeper hole.
Twitchy, wide-eyed Jesse Eisenberg is perfect as the edgy and on the edge Vincent, putting out a series of unfortunate fires in his bizarre quest to drill a straight fibre cable pipe from Kansas to New Jersey. Better is balding nerd, hunch-backed, awkward code crunching cousin Anton, played by unrecognizable Alexander Skarsgard in equal doses of clown tear sadness, and physical slapstick. Their escape from and battle with Cruella Devillish Salma Hayek (strong boss Eva), stirs the plot pot.
"The Hummingbird Project" is an exercise in determined futility, as a couple of misguided geniuses in search of life-altering, get rich quick adventure, get in way over their heads as their world spirals out of control. And though the film veers off common sense tracks, there's no denying it's power to cajole viewers along for the crazy ride.
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